Balough
December 8, 2016
(December 8, 2016) A settlement agreement with the Illinois Attorney General has torpedoed submarine sandwich maker Jimmy John’s non-compete agreements with low-paid workers and drivers. Under the agreement, Jimmy John’s Enterprises LLC and Jimmy John’s Franchise LLC agreed to drop its requirement that all employees and drivers sign a non-compete. The non-compete had prohibited the […]
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December 8, 2016
(November 28, 2016) Richard C. Balough again is one of the contributing authors to the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education’s (IICLE) publication Intellectual Property Law 2017 Edition. Mr. Balough wrote the chapter on Ownership and Transfer of Copyrights. The guidebook was first published in 2005 and has been revised several times. Mr. Balough has […]
Balough
December 8, 2016
(November 15, 2016) The question of how aspiring chefs can use trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets to protect their valuable recipes and presentations was the focus of a presentation by Balough Law Offices, LLC to the Chicago Bar Assn.’s Creative Arts and Food Law Committees. Cheryl Dancey Balough explained that while recipes themselves are not […]
Balough
October 27, 2016
(October 27, 2016) Internet Service Providers (ISPs) must now obtain affirmative consent if they want to use and share sensitive personally identifiable information of consumers under new rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC said the approved new rules “ensure broadband customers have meaningful choice, greater transparency and strong security protections for […]
Balough
October 25, 2016
(October 25, 2016) Need guidance when your business suffers a data breach? The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released Data Breach Response: A Guide for Businesses both as a pamphlet and a video. It outlines the steps a business should take after a data breach. The booklet also includes a model notification letter to send when […]
Balough
October 19, 2016
(October 19, 2016) Cheryl Dancey Balough presented on “Copyright Law Basics” to members of the Chicago Bar Association on October 18, 2016 as part of a continuing legal education program coordinated by the CBA’s Intellectual Property Committee. She discussed the requirements for a copyrightable work, authorship and ownership options, rights that a copyright owner enjoys, some […]
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October 12, 2016
(October 12, 2016) A multi-national tech support group of companies, which used deceptive pop-up ads to scare consumers into believing their computers were infected, has been temporarily shut down by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The companies, which generally operate under the name Global Access Technical Support, use pop-up ads sometimes with a loud alarm […]
Balough
October 11, 2016
(October 11, 2016) The intellectual property issues associated with autonomous vehicles provides a timely case study to assist business lawyers in advising their clients on use of the Internet of Things (IoT). In a presentation entitled “Autonomous Vehicles A Stalking Horse for Intellectual Property Rights in the Internet of Things,” Richard C. Balough explained how […]
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October 7, 2016
(October 7, 2016) In its report of a new study on patent assertion entities (PAEs), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) carefully avoids the term patent troll while finding that “Litigation” PAEs account for 96 percent of patent infringement lawsuits but generate only about 20 percent of patent license revenues of those PAEs studied. The report, […]
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August 29, 2016
(August 29, 2016) An appellate court found that Trader Joe’s may proceed with a trademark case in the United States against a Canadian citizen for trademark infringement in Canada. Michael Hallatt buys Trader Joe’s Company products in the United States, which he resells in a Canadian store he operates as Pirate Joe’s. Trader Joe’s, a […]
